It Begins Anew! Kawanio che Keeteru!

Tale of Shackamaxon's elm tree* (retourne)

Every tree has stories like mine

Some are memories fair and sweet

but some have sadness to define

Now hear my stories clear and neat

Some are memories fair and sweet

like the treaty of our dear Penn

who had no idea to cheat

He spread friendship mat for men

But some have sadness to define

as his deed brought hostility

for I saw blood and earth combine

ending the long tranquility

Now hear my stories clear and neat

of how I'm still well protected

but echoes of that war cry still greet

my nights that hear funeral bells

Cliffbell Joanna   

 *In 1683 William Penn entered into a Treaty with Tamanend, a chief of the Lenape tribe under an elm tree in Shackamaxon. The peace lasted only for about 70 years as Penn's Creek Massacre happened in 1755.